[hurd] Define _PATH_MOUNTED as "/etc/mtab"

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jun 16 2026, Cristian Rodriguez wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 6:43 PM Samuel Thibault
> <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
>>
>> Change the definition of _PATH_MOUNTED to "/etc/mtab". This is the
>> value used on Linux, and BSD also uses /etc/mtab.
>
> The linux definition is wrong, it has to be ./proc/self/mounts always
> with no ambiguity.
> all the userspace now requires /etc/mtab not to be a regular file to operate.
> It has to be the mounts on "this" process's mount namespace.

Isn't that exactly what /etc/mtab provides?

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